Poly Art Museum
Museum of repatriated bronze zodiac fountain heads looted from an imperial water clock, alongside ancient Chinese bronzes and Buddhist stone sculpture.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Poly Art Museum in Beijing begins with a bronze monkey and the afternoon hours it once spent spouting water for the Qianlong Emperor. You'll meet the twelve animal heads of a fountain clock at the Old Summer Palace, the Italian Jesuit painter believed to have designed them, and the night shift handed to the ox. It also follows the heads to a Hong Kong auction room in spring 2000. Best heard standing in front of the animal heads themselves.
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